Biden Pledged To End The Forever Wars, But He Might Just Be Shrinking Them
During his presidential campaign, Biden pledged to end the so-called "forever wars." But the withdrawal of ground troops from Afghanistan isn't the total end of U.S. military operations.
When President Biden looked into the cameras last week and firmly declared that "the war in Afghanistan is now over," his words were, in his view, the culmination of a central campaign promise.
In the summer of 2019, Biden had delivered a speech laying out the blueprint for his foreign policy agenda, arguing that it was "past time to end the forever wars, which have cost us untold blood and treasure."
It's a position he took again and again — in the pages of Foreign Affairs magazine, in his first official address to Congress, and even in his remarks last week on the withdrawal of U.S. ground troops, marking the official end of the 20-year mission in Afghanistan.
But critics — and even some Biden allies — question whether the
